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Piskahegan, — C. Apparently first settled in 1818, in connection with the 

 " military location " laid out along the Oromocto-St. Andrews road 

 for disbanded soldiers, chiefly of the 98th Regiment. For the most part 

 these lands were not taken up, or soon abandoned, but a few settlers 

 remained, originating- this settlement. (Its history is fully given in 

 " a plan of the military location between the Magagaudavic river and 

 the Oromocto, consisting of 60 lots .... on the road from St. 

 Andrews to Fredericton, 1819," and in an elaborate "Report on the 

 state of the lots of land located to the officers, non-commissioned 

 officers and privates of the 104th, New Brunswick Fencibles, and 98th 

 Regiment, between the Magagaudavic and Oromocto Rivers," by C. 

 Campbell, 1825, both of which documents are in the Crown Land Office. 



Port Elgin, — W. The vicinity was settled originally soon after 1763 by Xew 

 Englanders from Cumberland and Sackville, but the present thriving vil- 

 lage is later, formed since 1840, and has a number of settlers from 

 various sources. (Loc. inf.). 



Portland, — J. Important early trading village, formed at the mouth of the 

 St. John in 1762, by Messrs. Simonds, White and Hazen, of Newbury- 

 port, Mass. It grew slowly until the advent of the Loyalists, since 

 which, with many accessio:is from later immigrants, it has grown 

 steadily to the present. It became a parish in 1786, a town in 1871, 

 a city in 1883, and a part of St. John in 1889. (Its earlier history has 

 been treated exhaustively by Raymond, in his " At Portland Point," 

 in the New Brunswick Magazine, Vols. I, II, III; in Coll. N.B. Hist. 

 Soc, I, 160, 187, 306, II, 29; and in his St. John River). 



Pree des Bourcques, — W. Also Bourgs, etc. Former small Acadian village 

 on the site of Sackville, formed probably in the early 18th century as 

 an extension of Beauséjour, and destroyed by the British in 1755. (Hist. 

 Sites, 281). 



Pree des Richards, — W. Former small Acadian village on the site of upper 

 Sackville, formed probably in the early 18th century by expansion from 

 Beauséjour, and destroyed by the British in 1755. (Hist. Sites, 281). 



Presquile, — Cn. Military post est. on the south side of the mouth of this river 

 1791, and abandoned about 1822. Settled in the vicinity about 1800 

 by native settlers from the lower St. John who, in later years, extended 

 gradually up this river and to the neighbouring backlands. (Hist. Sites, 

 346; Sketches of N. B., 42; Raymond, Carleton County, 75, 76). 



Prince William, — Y. Parish est. 1786; settled in 1783 along the St. John by 

 an important disbanded Loyalist regiment, the King's American Dra- 

 goons, and in the interior by various later immigrant settlements, noted 

 under their respective names. (History of the Regiment, by Raymond, 

 in Coll. N.B. Hist. See, II, 211; location in Hist. Sites, 343 and Map 

 No. 46; Winslow Papers, 485). 



Prosser Brook, — A. Settlement, founded in 1829 by John Prosser, an English- 

 man, one of the disbanded soldiers of the West India Rangers. (Loc. 

 inf.). Most of the men of this regiment settled at Ranger Sctilcment^, 



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